Posts Tagged ‘python’

Relational databases, and the object-relational mapping layers which abstract them, are not particularly well suited to storing large blobs of data: images, videos, pictures, compressed files and so on. Far better than streaming megabytes of binary to the database is to instead keep a reference into a separate store, better suited to the task of […]

Most software projects start with a nice, clean, compartmentalised architecture, whether real or imagined. As implementation progresses, the lines between components tend to blur as unforeseen dependencies emerge and edge cases are dealt with. However, by the time it comes to deployment, you’ll probably still have a number of separate packages, with some (hopefully acyclic) […]